Thor got a heavy-duty role this time.
He has been wasting away again in New Asgard-ville, and he knows it’s his own damn fault.
He had a chance to end Thanos, but didn’t “aim for the head.”
Now he is ruminating on epic guilt, and making himself comfortably numb with god-level amounts of ale.
Even more interesting, directors Joe and Anthony Russo leave him this way.
He’s a mess and that’s who he stays moving forward.
This was a physical way of manifesting the grief and regret Thor feels.
But how do you punish a deity?
How do you show that someone who looks likeChris Hemsworthhas let everything go?
They made him a trainwreck.
She feels no surprise when she sees him, only pity.
“The future has not been kind to you,” she says.
And he feels he has no excuse.
He failed to live up to what was expected of him.
“Everyone fails at who they’re supposed to be, Thor.
That fortifies the Thunder God enough to keep going.
“I missed you, Mum,” he says.
“But you you’re a leader.
That’s who you are.”
This is essentially two sober buddies, helping each other up from the bottom in turn.
“You know, I’d make a lot of changes around here,” she tells him.
“I’m counting on it, Your Majesty.”
For the first time in a thousand years, Thor doesn’t have a path.
Maybe Thor will be a leader again someday.
As he said, even he has no idea where his path will lead.
For the first time, Thor is free.
